Implement-tongue



E. A. HENSAL IMPLEMENT TONGUE APPLICATION FILED JULY 8,1919.

Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

v; jazz/z Emma A. HENSAL, or PANORA, Iowa.

IMPLEMENT-TONGUE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mal-.16, 1920.

Application filed July 8, 1919. Serial No. 309,396.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. ELMER A. HENSAL, a citizen of the United States. and resident of Panora, in the county of Guthrie and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Implement-Tongue, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an implement tongue of simple, durable and inexpensive construction.

A further object is to provide an interchangeable, detachable tongue designed to be secured to a broken ordinary implement tongue.

Still a further object is to provide a detachable tongue that can readily be attached to any implement tongue of any size, without the use of any special tools.

Still a further object is to provide a tongue having means thereon to prevent longitudinal movement, and means for securing said tongue to a stub tongue.

\Vith these and other objects in View, my

invention consists in the construction, ar-' rangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

- Figure 1 shows a'view of an ordinary implement tongue which has been broken in the course of use.

Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of my detachable tongue which is designed to be secured to the broken tongue shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 shows a side elevation of my tongue as secured to an ordinary tongue.

Fig. 4 shows the under side of my device. 7 Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 shows an enlarged end view of my device, showing the clamping means; and

Fig. 7 shows a sectional view of my device, taken on the line 77 of Fig. 6.

In the accompanying drawings I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate an ordinary implement tongue which has been broken, or a stub tongue.

My detachable tongue comprises a tubular member A, a receiving socket B and a yoke supporting member C. The receiving socket B comprises the wall members 11 and 12. The wall members 11 and 12 have downwardly and inwardly projecting sides 13 and 1 1. On the members 13 and 14 are the downwardly projectingflanges' 15 and 16. The flanges 15 and 16 have elongated slots 17 which are designed to receive the bolts 18 having the nuts 19 thereon. The wall members 11 and 12 have inwardly projecting lugs 20, which are adapted to engage the sides of the ordinary tongue 10.

The sides 11 and 12 of the socket B are made of resilient material, the normal tendency. being to move in an outward direction substantially as shown in Fig. 6, and it will be seen that when the bolts 18 are tightened by operating the nuts 19, it will draw the side walls 11 and 12 toward each other, thereby causing the lugs 20 to engage the tonguef On the socket B is a rearwardly extending projection 21, which is placed over the stub tongue. The projection 21 has an opening22 therein, and the opening 22 registers with an opening in the stub tongue 10.

A clevis 23 is secured to the ordinary tongue, as is shown in Fig. 3. An evener pin 24 is received in the openings through the clevis 23, the opening 22 and the opening of the stub tongue, thereby preventing any longitudinal movement of the detachable tongue A.

It will be seen that when the bolts 18 are tightened the side wall members 11 and 12 will engage the tongue 10 and thereby frictioually hold the detachable tongue to the ordinary tongue.

. It will be seen that when the ordinary tongue is not of the required size to be received in the socket B, a. strip maybe placed on one of the sides of the ordinary tongue,

thereby enlarging the ordinary tongue 10 so tongue near the clevis, and by drawingthe bolts 18 together the socket wall members will engage the ordinary tongue, thereby holding the detachable tongue by friction from becoming disengaged from the ordinary tongue.

In this way the detachable tongue can be used on a great many difi'erent implements, and if an ordinary implement tongue is accidentally broken, my detachable ton ue may be taken off one implement and quickly placed upon another without the use of any special tools or the like, and the operation of the implement may go along without the delay which would be caused if it were neces sary to have a new tongue made or to purchase a new one.

The socket B is made of resilient material, and by merely clamping the bolts together the detachable tongue will be held to the ordinary tongue by friction. However, to insure a better connection between my device and the implement tongue, I have provided the lugs 20 which are designed to project into the stub tongue to insure a more perfect connection between the tongue 10 and the socket B. The projection '21 on the socket is placed over the stub tongue so that the opening 22 is alined with the opening of the clevis 23 and the opening in the tongue 10. When the evener pin is placed through the alined openings, any longitudinal movement of the detachable tongue relative to the stub tongue is eliminated.

It will be seen that it is a great advantage to the ordinary farmer to have one of these detachable tongues accessible at all times, so that when any implement tongue is broken he can quickly place the detachable tongue over the broken part of the old tongue, and thereby proceed with his work with the loss of only a few minutes time in the changing of the detachable tongue.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the various parts of my improved device Without departing from the essential features and purposes of my invention, and it is my intention to cover by my claim any modified forms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents which may be reasonably included within its scope. t

I claim as my invention:

In. a device of the class described, a stub tongue, a detachable tongue adapted to be secured to said stub tongue, an elongated tubular rigid member having a socket at one end and a neck yoke supporting member at the other end, an extending portion on said socket having an opening therein, a clevis mounted on said stub tongue having an opening registering with an opening in said stub tongue, said first opening being designed to register with the openings in said clevis and said stub tongue, and an evener pin adapted to extend. through said registering openings to prevent longitudinal movement of said detachable tongue relative to said stub tongue.

Des Moines, Iowa, May 23, 1919.

ELMER A. HENSAL. 

